bera

1 bera [ME bere] , bier. 1268 corpus ‥ ubi jacuit super ~am combusserunt Rec. Norw. I 205.

2 bera [ME bere] , bear barley. 1271 messerunt ‥ xxvij acras ~e, ix acras ordei Pipe Wint. 11M59/B1/35 r. 11d.; 1296 in ‥ iij quart’ vij bus’ ~e emptis DL MinAc 1/1, r. 7.

3 bera, ~ea, ~um [ME ber] , beer (ale brewed with hops). 1397 vij barellis ~e EEC 439; 1413 cum ‥ uno obolo de barello cervisie et beere TreatyR 96 m. 25; 1438 birra (Lydd MSS) HMC Rep. V 518b; 1454 pro sex barilibus birre ExchScot 613; 1460 in solucione ‥ duarum lastarum birri, octo parilium birri Hamburgh Ib. VII 60; 1554 pro 16 ly tunne duplicis birie Ac. Burs. Coll. Wint.; 1581 vendidit beream et serviciam suam post ratum de iiij d. le gallon LTR Enr Estr 1/13; [hippelaphus] bibit ‥ alam seu ~am avidissime Caius Anim. 11.

4 bera [cf. ML LM] , clearing (Touraine). a1180 dedimus ‥ minagium ‥ et nemus ‥ cum fundo et ~a Act. Hen. II II 122.